Venues similar to Il Pagliaccio

One-star fine dining from the Troiani brothers, behind Piazza Navona

One-star seafood from chef Giulio Terrinoni

One-star winter-garden cooking on the Aventino edge

Davide Puleio's intimate one-star in residential Prati

Rome's most serious haute Japanese, off Piazza Cavour

Cristina Bowerman's Michelin-starred creative kitchen in a Trastevere backstreet

Renaissance-piazza seafood institution since 1938

Rome's first traditional Japanese kaiseki and omakase counter

Antonio Ziantoni's measured, classically-grounded one-star tucked behind Trastevere

Third-generation Roman trattoria a few metres from the Pantheon

Deli, wine cellar and serious kitchen in one room near Campo de' Fiori

Owner-chefs' minimalist lab a step from the Pantheon

Italo-French cooking in an intimate set of rooms off the Pantheon

The quinto-quarto cathedral carved into Monte Testaccio

Textbook cucina romana cut into the amphora hill

Cacio e pepe as liturgy since 1911

1936 osteria famed for tableside cacio e pepe

Three-decade neighbourhood trattoria with day-specific menus

The benchmark thin-crust Roman pizza of Testaccio

The original home of Rome's pizza-pocket of cucina romana